A Review of Anthropic's Global Workspace Paper

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The below is a public review Anthropic asked me to write for their new global workspace paper. I recommend at least skimming their paper first.TLDR:I think this is a fantastic paper - it presents compelling evidence for some kind of "cognitive space" in models, that is used as a "working memory" for intermediate variables during a forward pass, shows that J-Lens is a useful technique for accessing this space. I believe these key claims.I believe J-Lens will be a useful (but limited) tool in prac...

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